Empire of the sun
Ballard, J. G., 1930-20092022
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Based on J.G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.
Main title:
Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard.
Author:
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2022.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Awards:
Guardian Fiction Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1984
ISBN:
9780008555368 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
1912641